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GATE.

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UNITEDV STATES PATENT @lirica DANIELKLINE KEASTER, OF LANCASTER, IOXVA.

GATE.

SPECIFIGALION forming part of Letters atent No. 597,721, dated January 25, 1898.

pplication filed October 1B, 1897. Serial No. 655,436. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LDANTEL KLINE KEASTER, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Keokuk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of gates and to provide a sliding and swinging onewhich will be simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, strong and durable, and capable of adjustment to provide a passage-way for small animals and to clear snow-drifts or other obstructions.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and

pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, showing the opposite side thereof. Figs. 3 and il are detail sectional views illustrating the construction and arrangement of the reversible plate and 4supporting-rod.

Lilie numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 designates a sliding and swinging gate mounted upon a frame or hanger 2, which is hinged to a post 3 and which is substantially triangular, being composed of a vertical' bar il, an upper horizontal bar 5, and a lower inclined bar 6, connected at its outer end with the outer end of the'bar 5 and at its inner endto the bar 4. The outer ends of the bars 5 and 6 are connected by a vertical piece 7,

and the hanger or frame 2 is braced at the inner ends of the bars 5 and by a vertical block or bar 8, interposed between the bars 5 and 6 and secured to the bar e.

The gate, which is preferably provided with spaced horizontal bars or rails 9, is supported upon rollers 10 and 11 and is adapted The roller 10, which is of greater diameter than the roller 1l, substantially fills the space between the adjacent rails 9 and is mounted upon a bolt or fastening device 12, which extends through the bracing bar or block 8. The fastening device 12 also supports a plate 13, arranged vertically and extending above and below the periphery of the roller 10 and engaging the outer faces of the adjacent bars 9 to retain the gate on the roller 10. i

The smaller roller 1l, which is of much less diameter than the width of the space between the rails 9, is adapted to permit the front portion of the gate to be elevated, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the aceompanying drawings. The bolt or fastening device 14, which forms the journal or spindle of the roller 11, detachably secures a platel in position, and this plate 15 projects over the outer faces of the adjacent rails 9, similar to the plate 13, to retain the `gate on the roller. ,The plate 15, which is provided witha spacing and supporting lug 16, is reversible and is adapted to be arranged ineither of the positions illustrated in Figs. Sand l of the drawings. V'Vhen the lug 1G is arranged below the roller 1l, the gate hangs in a horizontal position; but when the plate l5 is reversed to -bring the lug 16 above the roller the gate is tilted upward to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the front portion of the gate is elevated, it is adapted to swing clear of snow and other obstructions; but besides being adj ustable in this manner the gate may be raised bodily to bring a lower rail upon the rollers. When the'gate is raised to such an elevation, it will provide a passage for small animals.

lThe front end of the gate engages an elongated keeper 17 of a latch-post 1S, the ends of the horizontal bars or rails being extended beyond the vertical end bars 18, as clearly villustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings. The keeper 17 is of suicientlength to permit any two adjacent bars or rails 9 to engage it, and by this construction the gate is adapted to engage the keeper' at any adjustment.

The gate is operated to open it by sliding the same longitudinally sufficiently to disengage the rails or bars 9 from the keeper, and it may then be swung on the hinges which connect the hanger or frame to the hingepost. This opens the gate completely, but

it may be partialljT opened by sliding it lon IOO details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, such as varying the construction Lof the swinging frame or hanger to adapt it for supporting gates of diierent sizes.

What I claim is-u Vhen the entire space of the I The combination of a swinging frame or hanger, a gate having horizontal bars orrails, rollers` mounted on the frame or hanger and receiving one of the bars or rails of the gate, one of the rollers being of less diameter than the width of t-he space between the bars or rails of the gate to permit the latter to be tilted, and a reversible plate mounted adjacent to the small roller and provided with a supporting and spacing lug arranged in the space between the adjacent bars or rails and adapted to be located above or below the small roller, substantially asand for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

DANIEL KLINE KEASTER.

Vitnesses:

J. W. LEsAN, FREDDIE SCHIMMELFENNIG. 

